Sarah Jessica Parker (19:35)
But I also feel that in the year 2000, we have probably not seen characters on television show having phone sex. Right? So. So I'm Going to give our writers a break there. But I did think, like, we need to be more creative in our. Phone sex was really what I was thinking, because they were having. Basically, it seemed like they're having phone sex every night. And then the really entertaining thing happened, which is at one point. Oh, I forgot this. At one point, Miranda's having phone sex. And. And I call her about the prenup to tell her that Bunny's not going to negotiate. And I'm like, I'm in a panic on the other line, but she's having phone sex. She's like, charlotte, I've got to go. And you can hear me trying to talk to her. And she clicks over, right? Which is kind of funny. Then the next time we see them having phone sex, he gets another call and he clicks over, and then he comes back to continue the phone sex. But he's skipped ahead in the phone sex to a part that they weren't at, which alerts her that something is off. And she's like, no, you were kissing my breast. And he's like, no, no, I was thrusting. And she's like, no, no, you weren't. We hadn't gotten to that. And then he goes, oh. And she says, wait a minute. And she sits up, are you having phone sex with other people? And he's like, well, Miranda, we never said that we were exclusive. Like, it's kind of entertaining. And that's the end of George. We don't get to see cute Josh Hamilton again, which is kind of sad. And apparently I read in the notes that he was in the other room. He wasn't recorded. Pre recorded. And this is something that we very commonly do, especially in the early days. Like, if we had a phone conversation that was in any way important, right? Like. Like, I mean, really, any phone conversation, if there was any way that the other actor could be there, we would do it that way. Because what you're left with, if you don't do it that way, you would never have a prerecorded voice of the other person. Because that would be weird. You would have the script supervisor read it. But of course, the script supervisor is probably a woman. They normally are. I don't know why. And they're just reading it kind of like without emotion or whatever. So it's hard to do your performance in the same way that you would do it with the actual other actor, right? So, like, even if it was, you know, I don't remember if I also was in the other room to call Miranda. I could have been, but I also could have been on another set doing another scene. Right, so you're always trying to make it work out that you're free for the time that they need you to do the other off camera, you know, voice, which is your. Your performance, your side of the phone performance. Right. But I remember, like, I have an argument with Miranda coming up down the line where I say, I choose my choice. I choose my choice. Do you guys remember that? I remember 100%. She came and sat on my. My apartment set so that we could actually act with each other. I can't see her because I'm on the phone. Right. She's like, behind the wall. But. But, you know, it makes a huge, huge difference in your performance for phone conversations. I don't know if everybody does that or not, but that's what we do. That's what is preferable, I think. Anyway, Carrie, let's discuss. Oh, my goodness me. This is just, like the height of Carrie's really intense drama, but also the height of Sarah Jessica's, like, incredible acting. Like incredible acting. I felt like it was so real and grounded, which she always is. But just the guilt when you're just like. Just can't even hardly think straight because you feel so guilty. And of course, Aiden's just being super sweet because that's always how it is when you've done something bad to somebody. They're being super sweet because they don't even know it's super interesting. So first we see Carrie, and she's, you know, happy and kissing Aiden. Then she's saying that she's gonna go off with. With us. And he says, oh, what do you guys talk about? And she says, oh, you know, we braid each other's hair. It's really funny. And then he goes, well, don't you talk about the fellas? And she's like, well, you know, I guess it comes up, which I'm just laughing because, you know, this is like the commentary about the show, right? At this point is that, you know, we talk about men, and we talk about men in the ways that people didn't used to think women talk about men, which is all very interesting. And then at some point, he says something about his head of hair or whatever. I can't remember why. And then he says he's not losing any. And then apparently later in the show, we're gonna see some Rogaine and there's gonna be some conversation about that. So that's one of those things that the Internet would be very upset with now. But we didn't have Instagram back in the olden days. So we got away with it, I guess. But she's all lovey dovey with them is basically what I'm trying to say. Then she goes off to see us at Samantha's new apartment and then she ends up confessing to Samantha. And then, even though she wasn't supposed to see Aiden that night, she goes and knocks on his door. Which was another time that I thought about the now versus the then when we were doing. And just like that, we had a scene where Che knocks on Carrie's door and Miranda opens it. And I personally got so many texts like that would never happen. Why didn't Che ring the bell down on the street? Like it's real. Like in reality, I was like, oh my gosh, you guys. Like sometimes someone's coming out the door and you go in the door. But now that in like in a New York City building, I don't know if that made sense. But like, you know what I'm saying? Sometimes you don't have to use the intercom because you can just go anyway. My main point that I want to make is that now that I'm rewatching the show, I'm realizing that it happens all the time in our show. Big shows up at Carries and just bangs on the door. Carrie shows up at Bigs with all the different outfits. You think he's buzzed her up? No, people are not prepared and people show up at their do doors. It's just what we did. Because you know why? It's dead screen time to watch people buzz. Now I do remember other scenes in Carrie's though, because Carrie has a little intercom by her door where people would buzz. So I guess if it's something interesting, we would have them buzz. But it's not something interesting. It's dead time. We don't have time. We only have 25 minutes to do the whole show. Right? So that's why we don't do it. Which is the same reason why we don't hug each other every time we see each other or every time we say goodbye. There is not screen time. There's no hugging allowed. Anyway, back to this show. So Carrie ends up going back to Aiden's apartment. She comes in, he's in a sheet, he's all adorable and he's like massive sheet for his naked sleeping self. And she comes in and you can tell she's just so happy that she has him and that he doesn't know the truth about what she's been doing. And it's kind of sweet. And then she's still struggling to try to get the thoughts out of her mind. Big. And so she does all this organizing in her apartment wearing the cutest, weirdest, little green like jumpsuit, one of her very unique, you know, at home outfits. She's smoking a lot. And then she calls Big and she's like, we need to talk about what happened. And he's like now. And he's kind of his regular dick self, if I might say. And she's like, yes. Because you know, it was just a physical thing and we are not going to be that immature unless that rule us. And he was like, we're not. And she goes, no, we can, we can, you know, go against those urges. And he said, well, can you really do that? And she's like, yes. Cut to them in bed together. So sad. So sad. So I was really having a lot of mixed feelings because I was on Aiden side this whole episode, you know, I don't know why. I guess it, it just depends on the episode whose side I'm on. But they sleep together again. And then Aiden, Aiden's been out of town. I left that out. He had to take a chair to someone in Pennsylvania, which I'm like, wait. And just like that, I think he goes to Virginia, which is where he lives. But in this time he has to go to Pennsylvania in the truck. It's all very. It's all very. Aiden has a lot of similar, similar through lines.
